Season: +29 Units
* 4-4
** 28-22
*** 14-13-1
**** 6-1
Needless to say I was dead wrong about Mizzou last week. I guess I should have gotten the hint from last season when OU was able to handle this team realtively easy in both of their games. But with a year's experience under their belts of being a top 10 team in the polls and a Big 12 Title contender, and with the amount of starters they had returning, my thoughts were that Mizzou would be a better team this season. But defense is still Mizzou's main weakness. And it showed last week against the nations hottest QB.
Without a doubt Texas is the real deal.. And they are going to be a tough team for anybody in the country to deal with if they should make it to the title game. Mainly because they have the hottest QB in the country who is hitting 81% of his passes. And their playing pretty sound defense..Sure they've given up 35 and 31 points in their last two games..But they've faced two top 10 offenses with two Heisman quality QB's the last 2 weeks..I think the question that won't be answered until the bowl games are over will be, are the Big 12 teams giving up so many points because they all have weak defenses? And do the SEC defenses look so good because they have some very average offenses in their league? All I can say is so far I haven't seen any team who is head and shoulders above anybody else. Much like last season when we had a two loss team win the BCS Championship. So by the process of elimination, literally any of the top ten teams could make it in to the BCS title game. Personally as a Big 12 fan, I would like to see a rematch of Texas and OU in the title game. I doubt that it will happen because both of these teams have a tough road ahead of them. But it would be an interesting rematch. After the Red River Shootout, Stoops and his players went in the next day and looked at the film of the game. And the general conclusion was the Sooners, with maybe the exception of the kickoff return TD by Texas, was pretty sound in all phases of the game...They just lost..Time to move on. But you can bet that this game will have some different coaching strategies if these two teams meet again. Their both pretty even on both sides of the ball.
OSU at Texas...My numbers have Texas favored by 15. Which is a little closer to the actual line than what I feel comfortable with in giving up points here. I like the totals play much more. The biggest difference between OSU and the last two teams that Texas has faced vs OU & Mizzou, is OSU has a much better run blocking offensive line. So I look for the Pokes to have a bit more success rushing the ball and owning a little more ball possession time in this game. And OSU also has a better defense (359 ypg) than Mizzou's (424). As many people found out in the Mizzou-OSU game, the score didn't get anywhere near the ridiculous 80 total that was set for that game. Mizzou held OSU to 28 points in Columbia. So how many more points do you think the Texas defense is going to give up to OSU? Colt McCoy is hitting an unbelievable 81% of his passes. But how do you keep this up? I got news for you, he can't. He's way overdue for a mediocre game by his standards, where he hits maybe 65-70% of his passes. When you can score the first 35 points in the game like Texas did last week, you can pretty much expect an over total against a Mizzou team who will score in bunches in junk time when the game is over... But who really thinks that Texas is going to be up 35-3 at halftime against a ball possession team like OSU with a good defense? I know I don't..Texas has been known to bring out the best in OSU. And I expect this to be a hard fought game. Hear me now and believe me later, OSU ALWAYS gets up for this Texas team. And these two have produced some of the best games in the Big 12 over the years...Either way I just hate to play against the only two teams in the country who are both 7-0 ATS..Taking the (UNDER 71) **
* 4-4
** 28-22
*** 14-13-1
**** 6-1
Needless to say I was dead wrong about Mizzou last week. I guess I should have gotten the hint from last season when OU was able to handle this team realtively easy in both of their games. But with a year's experience under their belts of being a top 10 team in the polls and a Big 12 Title contender, and with the amount of starters they had returning, my thoughts were that Mizzou would be a better team this season. But defense is still Mizzou's main weakness. And it showed last week against the nations hottest QB.
Without a doubt Texas is the real deal.. And they are going to be a tough team for anybody in the country to deal with if they should make it to the title game. Mainly because they have the hottest QB in the country who is hitting 81% of his passes. And their playing pretty sound defense..Sure they've given up 35 and 31 points in their last two games..But they've faced two top 10 offenses with two Heisman quality QB's the last 2 weeks..I think the question that won't be answered until the bowl games are over will be, are the Big 12 teams giving up so many points because they all have weak defenses? And do the SEC defenses look so good because they have some very average offenses in their league? All I can say is so far I haven't seen any team who is head and shoulders above anybody else. Much like last season when we had a two loss team win the BCS Championship. So by the process of elimination, literally any of the top ten teams could make it in to the BCS title game. Personally as a Big 12 fan, I would like to see a rematch of Texas and OU in the title game. I doubt that it will happen because both of these teams have a tough road ahead of them. But it would be an interesting rematch. After the Red River Shootout, Stoops and his players went in the next day and looked at the film of the game. And the general conclusion was the Sooners, with maybe the exception of the kickoff return TD by Texas, was pretty sound in all phases of the game...They just lost..Time to move on. But you can bet that this game will have some different coaching strategies if these two teams meet again. Their both pretty even on both sides of the ball.
OSU at Texas...My numbers have Texas favored by 15. Which is a little closer to the actual line than what I feel comfortable with in giving up points here. I like the totals play much more. The biggest difference between OSU and the last two teams that Texas has faced vs OU & Mizzou, is OSU has a much better run blocking offensive line. So I look for the Pokes to have a bit more success rushing the ball and owning a little more ball possession time in this game. And OSU also has a better defense (359 ypg) than Mizzou's (424). As many people found out in the Mizzou-OSU game, the score didn't get anywhere near the ridiculous 80 total that was set for that game. Mizzou held OSU to 28 points in Columbia. So how many more points do you think the Texas defense is going to give up to OSU? Colt McCoy is hitting an unbelievable 81% of his passes. But how do you keep this up? I got news for you, he can't. He's way overdue for a mediocre game by his standards, where he hits maybe 65-70% of his passes. When you can score the first 35 points in the game like Texas did last week, you can pretty much expect an over total against a Mizzou team who will score in bunches in junk time when the game is over... But who really thinks that Texas is going to be up 35-3 at halftime against a ball possession team like OSU with a good defense? I know I don't..Texas has been known to bring out the best in OSU. And I expect this to be a hard fought game. Hear me now and believe me later, OSU ALWAYS gets up for this Texas team. And these two have produced some of the best games in the Big 12 over the years...Either way I just hate to play against the only two teams in the country who are both 7-0 ATS..Taking the (UNDER 71) **
